Fr. Joseph Gleason
Rating: 9,2|Votes: 59
Fr. Joseph Gleason, who had upped stakes from rural Illinois with his wife and eight children and moved to Russia. Here is Fr. Joseph’s explanation to him of why he and his family chose this non-standard path, and how it has turned out for them.
Priest Dimitry Torshin
Rating: 9,5|Votes: 38
What happens when people follow the will of God, no matter how strange or unexpected it may seem, and what ensues when they stubbornly insist on having their own way? Find the answer in these three stories of Fr. Dimitry Torshin, the priest of the Church of the Dormition in Ozerskoye (Podborki) Village near Kozelsk.
Alexei Kashkin
Rating: 8,5|Votes: 13
In this article, professor of the Saratov Orthodox Theological Seminary and author of the textbook The Typikon of Orthodox Worship Alexei Kashkin tells us about the Presanctified Liturgy.
Vladimir Krupin
Rating: 9,8|Votes: 59
Fr. Paul, a monk, told me a story that happened to him. He told it as if it was how it all should have been. I was struck by this story, and I will retell it now—I think it will prove amazing not just for me.
Priest George Maximov, Anton Gotman
Rating: 9,9|Votes: 23
The guest of today’s program is Anton Gotman, who had been practicing Buddhism for a long time. In this interview, he will tell us what he was looking for but couldn’t find in Buddhism and how Christ touched his heart.
Archpriest Gregory Hallam
Rating: 9,8|Votes: 39
Fr. Gregory had previously served as an Anglican priest, but in 1992 he became disappointed in Anglicanism and embraced Orthodoxy. Three years later he was ordained and since then has served at a parish of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch in Manchester—one of the largest English cities—for over twenty years.
St. Herman of Alaska Missionary Brotherhood
Rating: 9,8|Votes: 21
Speaking with strangers in streets about the innermost things is a real challenge, a personal podvig which can only be performed by somebody who came to wholeheartedly believe in the Truth and strives to live according to Its will.
Rating: 9,1|Votes: 27
In this short video, well-known Russian priest Fr. Andrei Tkachev talks about the phenomenon of people converting to Orthodox Christianity throughout the world, here esecially focusing on America and Turkey. As Fr. Andrei explains, people are looking for the deeper undercurrent of their lives and cultures, and are finding it in the Christ's true Orthodox Church.
Lolita Naranovich
Rating: 8,7|Votes: 41
All the names of the people I talked with have been changed. They agreed to tell me about their greatest secrets in the hope that these stories will help people understand that no matter how dark the night, there is always a path to the light.
Rating: 8,9|Votes: 30
The text explains the problem of the human condition and the Orthodox theology of how Jesus Christ came to save fallen mankind, also offering an overview of the Ten Commandments and how to apply them in our lives.
Priest George Maximov, Elena Smirnova
Rating: 9,6|Votes: 42
Sometimes the journey to the Light takes people through years of serving dark forces. This is what happened to Elena Smirnova. She used to practice witchcraft and esoteric arts, and summon evil spirits.
Fr. John Valadez
Rating: 8,6|Votes: 16
In this engaging video, Fr. John Valadez speaks of the soul-destroying pitfalls of the punk culture he once found himself wrapped up in, and how the zine Death to the World, founed by former punks turned monks, helped him and many others to find the light of Christ in the Orthodox Church.
Priest George Maximov, Alexander Lyulka
Rating: 8,8|Votes: 27
Alexander read many atheistic and anti-Christian books trying to convince himself that Christianity was unviable, but discovered the depth and intellectual power of Orthodoxy instead. He will tell us how his intellectual quest led him to faith.
Marina Alexeyeva
Rating: 9,7|Votes: 11
He awoke at the grinding sound of the door opening. The guards had come. Releasing Tolya from the handcuffs, they led him upstairs. “Well, this is it,” he thought, “now they are going to kill me and my wasted life is going to end.” They took him outside. Anatoly winced, thinking it’s the end.
Anna Romashko
Rating: 9,8|Votes: 10
This desire should be formulated this way: “I would like to become a priest’s wife. But may Thy will be done, O Lord!
Rating: 9,6|Votes: 124
his happened in the monastery of Vatopedi, when Elder Joseph “the Younger” still lived there. It was late November. I was then fulfilling the obedience of guest master. In those days, there were conflicts arising in the Polytechnic University in Athens between students and police.
Fr. John Whiteford
Rating: 9,6|Votes: 18
How can someone best assimilate into the “culture” of Orthodoxy, even picking up other national customs, without losing their own nationality (being from the USA for example)? How do we find that middle balance of taking the good and leaving the bad from our own culture?
Archpriest Andrew Phillips
Rating: 7,5|Votes: 10
No, he has never studied theology, he has never heard of any modern ‘theologians’ (though he does know something of the Lives of the Saints), he cannot tell you about the history and structure of the services, has never met a bishop, does not know the Bible backwards, will not give you lots of pious talk about prayer and fasting, has never heard of ‘the Council of Crete’ and knows nothing about Catholicism and Protestantism.
Jonathan M. Pitts
Rating: 8,8|Votes: 12
Growing up a Southern Baptist in eastern Tennessee, Brent Gilbert says, he never realized there were other ways to worship.
Priest George Maximov
Rating: 8,9|Votes: 10
The guest of today’s program is Abdias Bijanov, an Orthodox Assyrian. His search for the meaning of life initially led him to the Nestorian Assyrian Church of the East, but eventually he found the Truth in Orthodoxy.
